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A Whitefriars glass lobed vase, by William Wilson, circa 1950, finished in sea green, shape no 9286, 19cm high, together with a Whitefriars lobed bowl also in sea green, a Daum clear glass cornucopia vase and a Strombergshyttan clear glass obelisk vase.(4)

A 20TH CENTURY BACCARAT CLEAR GLASS OBELISK etched mark to underside, 25.5cms high; together with a pair of bark effect candlesticks, circular with deeply everted collars, 25cms high

A model obelisk of Cleopatras needle.

7h C19th Bronze Figurine Charmeur by Lavergne. Youth with pipe to mouth & stick in one hand, small obelisk with lizard climbing, No. 31934 to base

A THERMOMETER mounted on a mother of pearl obelisk with ebonised base, 11" high

A Continental moulded glass six light chandlier, second half 20th century, the sockets and drip pans on serpentine arms issuing in three pairs from a knoped and baluster moulded stem, three further arms rising to obelisk finials, hung with faceted glass drops overall, 80cm high

An Early 19th Century Dutch Mahogany and Later Inlaid Secretaire a Abattant, having a dentil-inlaid cornice over a frieze drawers and fall, enclosing a fitted interior, over three long drawers below, all between canted corners, on inverted obelisk feet, 152cm by 100cm by 47cm See illustration

A DAY'S PATENT CHIMNEY ORNAMENT in the form of a Gothic architecture obelisk as a table screen

English, early 19th century Four alabaster panels commemorating Lord Nelson, formerly mounted on the Trafalgar Urn inscribed: HORATIO / VISCOUNT NELSON KB / Commander in Chief in the / Mediterranean / Fell in the discharging of his Duty / Off Trafalgar in the moment of Victory. / 21 October 1805 / ALEXANDER DAVISON consecrates / this Urn as a tribute of respect to the Immortal Memory of / His Friend each weathered panel with finely carved flanking dolphins and depicting respectively: the commemorative inscription within an oval cartouche; a relief carving of HMS Victory; a cartouche of laurel wreaths with protruding trophies; and a seated figure of Britannia with a lion, the latter two panels cracked down the middle. The alabaster urn which surmounted the plinth is included in the lot but broken in three pieces due to weathering. each: 29.5 by 55cm., 11.5 by 21.5in. Provenance Alexander Davison Esq., St. James's Square, sold 21 April 1817, lot 715 The recently-identified Trafalgar Urn is a relic of the remarkable relationship between Nelson and his agent, and closest civilian friend, Alexander Davison (1750-1829). The two men had met in Canada in 1782, forging a friendship that would only be broken by Nelsons death twenty years later. At the time Nelson was a young, unknown post-captain on convoy duty during the American War whilst Davison was at the outset of a highly lucrative career as a military contractor. As Nelsons fame grew, however, Davison increasingly took charge of his friends business and domestic affairs. He was appointed Nelsons prize agent after the battle of the Nile in 1798 and again after the battle of Copenhagen three years later. By way of thanks for this profitable appointment, and to bind himself closer to Nelsons ÒBand of BrothersÓ for whom he arranged the famous ÒEgyptian ClubÓ swords and dirks, Davison lavished gifts on his friend. Many of these appeared at the sale of Davisons collection at Sothebys, London in October 2002. Davison also used his vast fortune to build a spectacular art collection by patronising many of the leading artists of the day including Benjamin West, Richard Westall and David Wilkie. Perhaps the single most important painting he owned was The death of the Earl of Chatham by John Singleton Copley (now in the Tate Gallery, London). Among the artists Davison regularly entertained at his mansion in St. Jamess Square in London were the sculptors Joseph Nollekens and John Flaxman. It was therefore unsurprising that when Nelson wished to commemorate the death of his colleague Captain Ralph Miller with a monument in St. Pauls Cathedral, he gave the task to Davison, who commissioned Flaxman. Davison was sorely disappointed not to be appointed the prize agent for the battle of Trafalgar, privately ruing the death of his famous client although there are signs that Nelson had already decided to give the task to a rival agent. Accordingly, Davisons commemorations were more muted than they had been after the Nile when he had ostentatiously presented a medal to every man who had fought the battle. Nevertheless, he gave medals to the men on board Victory and erected an obelisk on his estate in Northumberland: Ôto the memory of private friendship. A similarly intimate sentiment informed the ordering of an urn - a replica of the famous Warwick Vase - for his townhouse which he dedicated to Ôthe immortal memory of his friend. Indeed, in the aftermath of the battle Davison badly n eded some influential friends. Having already been convicted for electoral fraud some years earlier, he was again facing prosecution for defrauding the government in his contracting business; charges that returned him to prison in 1809. On his release, with most of his fortune gone in fines and in fighting his case, Davison was forced to sell much of his magnificent art collection. ÔThe Entire Property of Alexander Davison, Esq. comprised almost a thousand lots and took fourteen days to sell on the premises at St. Jamess Square in April/May 1817. Lot 711 was a marble bust of Nelson by Flaxman (now in the collection of the Ministry of Defence, London). Three lots later the urn appeared, with even greater fanfare: A SUPERB STATUARY TWO-HANDLED URN (to the Memory of the late LORD NELSON) on a pedestal 7 feet high, richly ornamented in EMBLEMATIC DEVICES, and surmounted by the figures of NEPTUNE, AMPHITRITE, &c. The urn then disappeared from sight for almost two hundred years.

A pair of marble obelisk table lamps, supported by brass turtles on stepped square bases, with shades height 19in

A collection of Tunbridge ware items, including obelisk with thermometer, ring stand, small playing card box, match box cover, circular trinket box (labelled T Barton Late Nye), rectangular pin cushion, two small rectangular boxes and a Victorian black papier mâché snuff box with mother-of-pearl decoration to lid

A 19th century Bluejohn and marble obelisk

An Art Deco clock garniture, circa 1930 with silvered Egyptian carved motifs clock stamped 'Samuel Marti', Medaille D'Or Paris 1900' clock: 41.5cm. high by 49.5cm. wide, obelisk: 59cm. high (3)

Miller, Henry Tropic of Capricorn. Paris: The Obelisk Press, [no date] 8vo, errata slip, original red-brown wrappers, uncut

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,Louis XVI, The Assembly of Paris, Silver Medal, 1789, by B Duvivier, bust of the King left, legend around and below, rev Libery, Phrygian cap on staff, stands at obelisk which she inscribes with date, LIBERTÉ ASSURÉE, 46mm (Hennin 41). Extremely fine.

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Sweden, Christina (1626-1689, Queen 1632-1654), Accession, cast Silver Medal [1632], bust three-quarters left, falling lace collar and embroidered dress, rev hand from clouds crowns lion at obelisk, NON EGO GUSTAVO … (Hild 8). Nearly very fine.

WILLIAM DANIELL (1769-1837) ILAN-DREOCH-GLENBEG, INVERNESSHIRE Aquatint 16.5cm x 24cm and six others by the same hand 'Loch Duich, Rosshire', 'The Mumbles Lighthouse', 'Swansea Bay', 'Portree on the Isle of Skye', 'Glencoe taken near Ballachulish', 'Liveras near Broadford Skye', 'Obelisk at Forres' (7)

HENRY MILLER, 6 ttls: TROPIC OF CANCER, Paris Obelisk Press 1935 reprint, rebnd (not recent), cl; BLACK SPRING, Paris Obelisk Press, 1938 reprint, cl, orig wraps bnd in; TROPIC OF CAPRICORN, Paris Obelisk Press 1950, orig wraps worn + 3 others + KENNETH PATCHEN: THE MEMOIRS OF A SHY PORNOGRAPHER, n y n d, 1st ppr bk edn, orig wraps, (7)

A LATE VICTORIAN BLUE POLISHED QUARTZ SILVER MOUNTED DESK STAND, the rounded base mounted with a pair of globular inkwells, on obelisk shaped block and a silver pen holder, stamped 935 and maker's mark FR & S. 22cm diameter

An olive wood twist candlestick, lignum spill, treen jar and a obelisk.

A Victorian white pressed glass obelisk.

BLACK and GREEN VARIEGATED MARBLE TABLE LAMP, obelisk pattern, 45 cm high

An Ashford marble obelisk, last quarter 19th century, decorated with flower sprays, on a stepped base 26cm high

Brass, copper and collectables; shaving mirror on stand, obelisk, BBC bakelite brownie wireless, carved devils head, cast iron weight, oil lamp and sundry.

An Italian micro mosaic brooch, depicting a building in the Neo-classical style, with a centre obelisk and fountains to a bevelled edge blue ground plain frame (see lot 292 for illustration)

* English School, circa 1800, MEMBERS OF THE REFFLEY BRETHREN DANCING AND SMOKING OUTSIDE REFFLEY TEMPLE AND OBELISK, KINGS LYNN Oil on canvas, 38 x 45cm. The Reffley Brethren came into being in the time of Cromwell, and was a way for supporters of the Royalists to show their disapproval of the Government. A group of Kings Lynn men defied Cromwell's ruling forbidding gatherings of thirty or more people. As the political situation changed so too did the aims of the Society, which became confined to promoting conviviality and good fellowship among the members. They would meet every Summer at the 'temple' built in 1789 on land owned by the Ffolkes family, have a meal, quaff a secret brew of punch and inhale the aromatic smoke of their 'special mixture' in the church warden pipes.

Connolly (Cyril). The Rock Pool, 1st ed., Obelisk Press, Paris, 1936, text block slightly browned, orig. printed wrappers, minor wear to spine, small 4to A good copy of a flimsy production. (1)

A pair of Victorian obelisk sanders

Contemporary wrought iron garden obelisk

Nine continental bisque figures, to include a female figure with a xylophone and a basket of fruit, 26.5cm high, a figure of violinist, 21cm high, various other figures and a Sowerby obelisk with embossed hieroglyphic decoration, 20.5cm high, (10), a/f

18TH CENTURY VERGE ENAMEL POCKET WATCH, signed Samuel Northcote, Plymouth, no. 629, pierced engraved balance cock with diamond endstone and silver regulating dial, French enamel dial with winding hole between 1 and 2 o’clock position, the enamel paste set back depicting a mother and daughter beside an obelisk memorial, 55mm *Apprentice to Thomas Mudge*

A large Brian Willsher abstract wooden sculpture, circa 1977, made in oroko wood, the concentric opposing forms rising to obelisk point, signed and dated to underside, 60cm in height.

A porphyry type obelisk, on stepped square plinth, height 66.5cm, and one other yellow marble obelisk similar, (2).

A Victorian Tunbridgeware desk thermometer of obelisk form with 'tumbling cube' decoration, 19cm. high, a/f, two stamp boxes, a vesta box and three other items. (6)

Malachite obelisk, 44cm

A Derby figure group, circa 1770, modelled as three putti placed around an obelisk; the first figure portraying Hercules fighting the Hydra; the second and third probably representing Perseus and Andromeda; all set on a rock work base modelled with seaweed and shells. Restored. Height 29cm.

Enzo Plazzotta, 1921-1981 Mother and child Stamped with the artist's stamp and numbered 1.9 Bronze with green patina Height (including base): 45.5cm.;18in. Provenance Obelisk Gallery, London, whence purchased by the present owner

Enzo Plazzotta, 1921-1981 Dawn Stamped with the artist's stamp and numbered 2.6 Bronze with dark brown patina Height (including base): 77.5cm.; 30.5in. Provenance Obelisk Gallery, London, whence purchased by the present owner

A MID 19TH CENTURY LIMESTONE OBELISK, square tapering on a square base, 57" high

A Derbyshire slate and sample stone inset obelisk circa 1870 with foliate decoration to one side on a stepped base 47cm high

A pair of cut glass and silvered metal mounted twin light candelabra in the Regency style 20th century each with sockets and drip pans on scrolling branches rising from a central dished boss with two further faceted and hobnail cut branches rising to obelisk finials the conforming shafts descending to cylindrical plinths and square bases 66cm high

BRITISH TRADE TOKENS, 18th Century, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Kempson's Pennies (2), 1796 (DH 6, 20), T W[yon], Penny, 1796, ivy covered obelisk (DH 25), Westwood's Farthing/Half-Halfpenny, 1792, General Elliot, rev fleur-de-lis (DH 479). Extremely fine or better, DH6 and DH20 lustrous, DH25 a little scratched on obverse, last scarce, first rare. (4)

BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Historical Medals, Clive of India, Robert Clive, (1725-1774), Governor of Bengal, Tribute Medal, Copper, 1766, by John van Nost the Younger, bust of Clive, head turned and facing, wearing richly embroidered jacket, ROBERT CLIVE BARON OF PLASSEY, rev (signed C.G.), Fame with trumpet points to obelisk naming his achievements, 42mm, contained in (somewhat later) Soho Mint metal shells (BHM 95; Pudd 766.1). Choice extremely fine.

A George III oak and mahogany banded standing corner cupboard North East England late 18th/early 19th century with two pairs of panelled doors enclosing a blue painted interior with shelves the canted sides with reeded terminals and obelisk motifs h.207cm. w.118cm. d.69cm. W

A Derby figure group, circa 1770, modelled as three putti placed around an obelisk; the first figure portraying Hercules fighting the Hydra; the second and third probably representing Perseus and Andromeda; all set on a rock work base modelled with seaweed and shells. Restored. Height 29cm.

A FRENCH BRONZE DESK STAND modelled as a truncated obelisk, surmounted by a bust of Napoleon, the left side with a letter rack, the front with a thermometer (tube missing), white marble plinth, 11in. (28cm.) high

A late Victorian table thermometer having a facet cut spherical base rising to an obelisk top set with a mercury thermometer.

An 18th Century enamel plaque, probably the cover from a box, painted an extensive river landscape with bridge, figures and cattle, a castle and obelisk beyond, 7.5cm x 11cm (3"x 4.25"), framed

A French Grand Tour gilt metal mounted Sienna yellow marble obelisk, applied with an Egyptian maiden supporting a basket of fruit on her head, acanthus cast socle, square base, 70cm high

A modern Leeds pottery style figure of an elephant carrying an obelisk, 23 1/2 inches (A/F)

A pair of Don pottery plates. Printed in blue with named Italian views under borders of cherubs and flowers. ‘Terrace of the Naval Amphitheatre of Taorminum’ and ‘The Obelisk at Cantaca’ diameter 10" c1830.

A 20th Century stained pine bookcase cupboard of obelisk form, comprising three-tier book shelf over cupboard, 181cm high.

A twin branch crystal candelabra, converted to electric, the lower sconces with pear shaped drops and centred a crystal obelisk, raised on a domed circular foot complete with tasselled pink shades, 17 1/2" high

An early 19th century candelabra the four candle lustres hung with bead swags from the central obelisk above blue jasper cylinder between ormolu with beaded bands 55cm high

C.H.T., British School - Design for a Monument in the Form of an Obelisk, watercolour and ink over pencil, signed with monogram, dated 'February 3rd 1800' and annotated in ink, approx 52cm x 32cm. Note: within the annotations there are references to His Present Majesty, Rt. Hon. Wm. Pitt, Earl Spencer, Admirals House, Vincent, Duncan and Nelson forming part of the decorative scheme of this monument.

Connolly (Cyril). The Rock Pool, 1st ed., Paris, Obelisk Press, 1936, owner bookplate, orig. printed wrappers, spine rubbed and browned, 8vo, together with The Unquiet Grave, 1st ed., Horizon, 1944, bookplate, newsclipping tipped-in on front free endpaper, orig. cloth in rubbed d.j., 8vo, ltd. ed. 805/1000, and Enemies of Promise, 1st ed., Routledge, 1938, orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo (3)

A Goss memorial obelisk 'Carew' near Pembroke (6in.) and a Melba royal commemorative globe 1937 - 3.5in.

A 19th Century Pietra dura desk thermometer in the form of an obelisk, square stepped base rising to lower supporting block decorated with inlaid lily of the valley below ivorine backed thermometer within inlaid multi stone border. 15’ high. S/D.

A Victorian Ashford black marble thermometer of obelisk form inlaid with forget-me-nots and white jasmine on stepped rectangular base mercury thermometer 41cm high late 19th century. See J. M. Tomlinson Derbyshire Black Marble 1996 for similar objects and decoration

A green glass obelisk cut with a three dimensional tower; together with another clear glass obelisk cut with three dimensional urn and painted with butterflies and flowers, tallest 13.5cm (2) From: 27 Sheen Common Drive